Organon F

Volume 30, February 2023, Issue 1, Pages 102–126

ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)

As it is broadly accepted, typical uses of demonstratives are accompanied by demonstrations. The concept of demonstration, however, manifests the action–product ambiguity analogous to that visible in the opposition between jumping and the resulting jump, talking and the resulting talk or crying and the resulting cry. It is also a heterogeneous concept that enables demonstrations to vary significantly. The present paper discusses action–product ambiguity as applied to demonstrations as well as the heterogeneity of the latter. An account that acknowledges ambiguity and heterogeneity of demonstrations is sketched in the paper. It is argued that it has a rich explanatory and descriptive potential.

Demonstratives; demonstrations; demonstrate; action–product distinction; referential intentions.

Author

Tadeusz Ciecierski

Affiliation

University of Warsaw

Address

Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland

E-mail

taci@uw.edu.pl 

Received

12 August 2022

Revised

1 December 2022

Accepted

1 January 2023

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

APA

Ciecierski, T. (2023). Actions, Products, Demonstrations. Organon F, 30(1), 102–126. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30106

Chicago

Ciecierski, Tadeusz. 2023. "Actions, Products, Demonstrations." Organon F 30 (1): 102–126. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30106

Harvard

Ciecierski, T. (2023). Actions, Products, Demonstrations. Organon F, 30(1), pp. 102–126. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2023.30106

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